As a novelist, I control my characters and their circumstances. Or at least that's what I tell myself. Sure my characters act up and demand their own way. But ultimately, if I don't like an attitude or a circumstance, I delete and rewrite.

Oh, if only reality were so simple!

Just as I was hitting my stride on my next novel, reality, a rude intruder, intervened. My wise agent, Steve Laube, warned me this would happen.

First, I moved. [...]

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